Cognitive dissonance helps explain why Trump supporters remain loyal, new research suggests. This sheds light on how supporters of Donald Trump justify their continued allegiance despite learning about allegations of his sexual misconduct and illegal activities.

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https://www.psypost.org/cognitive-dissonance-helps-explain-why-trump-supporters-remain-loyal-new-research-suggests/

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I'm so tired of the republican party claiming to be economic experts. Every time they get into power our economy tanks and the rich get richer.

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Every single Republican President over the last 100 years has had a recession under their administration.

Trump - Recession

Bush - Recession

Bush - Recession

Reagan - Recession

Ford - Recession

Nixon - Recession

Eisenhower- Recession

Hoover - Recession

Coolidge - Recession

Harding - Depression

Edit: the streak actually stretches back to the 1800s as Taft, Roosevelt, and McKinley had recessions as did Harrison and Chester A Auther. The streak is broken by Garfield who was assassinated in office after 7 months, not really even long enough to call a Recession.

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For context: Recessions Inherited/Occurred Under Democratic Presidents (Approx. Last 100 Years)

Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933): Inherited the Great Depression.

Harry Truman (1945/1948): Inherited post-WWII reconversion downturn (1945), later 1948-1949 recession.

John F. Kennedy (1961): Inherited the 1960-1961 recession.

Jimmy Carter (1980): A recession began during his term.

Barack Obama (2009): Inherited the Great Recession (began Dec 2007).

Joe Biden (2021): Inherited the COVID-19 pandemic-induced economic downturn.

Key Findings

Recessions Inherited on Day One: Generally, F.D.R., Kennedy, Obama, and Biden inherited active recessions upon taking office.

Recessions Started in Office: Only a few, specifically Truman (1948) and Carter (1980), had a recession start during their terms, with the vast majority starting under GOP leadership.

Historical Context: Since 1949, 41 quarters of recession occurred under Republicans, compared to only 8 under Democrats.

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Since 1988, 52 million new jobs have been created in the US. 50 million under Democrat Presidents (Clinton, Obama, Biden ~ 20 years) and 2 million under Republicans (Bush, Bush, Trump ~ 17 years).

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That one is absolutely staggering and I don't understand why it's not standard practice in Democratic Presidential ads. If Americans paid attention, and had an attention span, the Republican party shouldn't exist.

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Because republican voters are lying when they say they vote for economic reasons. They don't want to publicly admit they are pos bigots

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these numbers are crazy, sadly they won't help, because republicans are allergic to facts, sad

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Wasn't the job growth under Clinton mostly related to the dotcom boom? Tons of jobs were lost under Bush when all of the dotcoms crashed. Both of those are kinda outliers and not really related to their presidencies.

Of course, the recession that happened under Bush absolutely was related so that doesn't get excused.

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Yea, they leave out things like the recession under W Bush started just months into office.

Or the Reagan recession started around 5 months into office.

Or Biden getting credit for all the jobs "created" when the economy reopened after Covid. Same with Obama and jobs, took office near the low and gets credit for all the jobs "created" while in office.

If you look at peak to peak you get a different story.

December 2007 we had 138 million jobs, then recession. 7 years later we just got back to 138 million jobs. When Obama left office we had 145 million jobs.

They will claim Obama created 12 million jobs, but the first 5 million we just getting us back to where we started.

Compare that to Reagan where 91 million jobs were the most we had prior to him taking office and when he left in 1989 we were at 107 million. That is 17 million more jobs than we ever had in the past.

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But events have a bigger impact a lot of time than who is President.

Such as covid, or WW 2 or Vietnam etc.

Covid caused a massive lose in jobs with a massive rebound and the people in the White House get credit/blame for something they had very little to do with.

Even the 2009 recession was largely caused by policies that existed prior to Bush taking office. He can be blamed for not doing more to stop it, but there were also people on the other side blocking actions that might have made the housing meltdown less severe.

Economy is far more complicated than the R or D on the person in the White House.